Depending on what you’re doing - unless you need to game with slightly better FPS there’s nothing a gaming PC/laptop from a few years ago can’t completely crush still
I was thinking more about playing with new AI toys. TBH a 10 year old CPU and GPU are still fine for most games, latest AAA releases perhaps notwithstanding.
Hmm yeah I figure it’s better to just rent a monster machine in the cloud for that. But I haven’t dipped into that much yet
It’s not because then you’re trading graphical fidelity for input lag.
Input lag doesn't seem relevant for playing around with AI models for 5 minutes until you get bored.
Yeah just the “compilation” (sorry not a ML engineer term) would need meaningful resources. You can run a python repl and editor on a raspberry pi